I would trade your life for a bowl of cereal right now

This is the reason I gave up sugar March 2010, about to get my 3 years chip. A two days binge is not much, if I dared touch sugar again they would find me in the corner of the basement, a week after I've gone missing, surrounded by leftover cakes .

I've given it up for good, never to touch again, must say, it becomes easier with time. Last Christmas I barely cried

A piece of fruit is not bad...but does nothing for the cravings.  A big fruit salad or something does the same thing to me and a cookie binge, though.  I just want MORE, so I tend to treat fruit about the same as candy.  I just sweat out the withdrawals until they go away.

Wish I had the discipline you guys have!    I want to lose 20 pounds.  For me it's not necessarily the sugar,  it's the salty stuff.   Chips/pretzels stuff like that.  I even have a hard time with nuts in moderation.  Having an occasional beer really intensifies that craving too!

I'll join this train. I used to sit and eat an entire carton of ice cream or bag of pretzels in a sitting and then go rummage around in the empty pantry already sick but ready for more... or soda. I could drink 4 liters of coke in a day without break a sweat. Somehow... I ended up with type 2 diabetes. Wonder how that happened....

But, I am proud of me, we had a food day at work which is code for everyone brings a cream cheese dish. I stuck to the veggie tray without so much as a twinge of interest in the other junk. I have had not a single soda in months either, or ice cream for that matter.  

I hear you on the cereal.  My kids don't like my style at all, I've flat out banned cereal of any kind from the house!  And no chips, candy, ice cream, none of that any more.  Not fair they say, we're not the fat ones with no self control!  Tough I say, I buy the food.  

Me and one daughter have now converted from cereal 7x/week to a green smoothie every day.  The other daughter is still sticking to her anti green guns, but she's slowly coming around (she usually has a yogurt and a hard boiled egg, at least it's better than cereal!).  I'm sure they will thank me later, right?